Except for Churchill. He began warning that the Nazis must be stopped when they occupied the Rhineland in 1936. He urged an alliance of Britain, France and the Soviet Union to stop Hitler's expansion. He was called a warmonger, an enemy of peace, reviled in print and in speeches.
The British neo-con conspiracy? Germany invades Poland and that's all the excuse the neo-cons needed to take over and employ their pre-advertised agenda!!
Just kidding.
Churchill carried some baggage - he was first sea lord in WWI and had some collossal failures on his mitts like Gallipoli. Its stuff like that where people might not have been taking him seriously in the inter-war years.
He was named Prime Minister in wartime and was thrown out of office in an election shortly after the conflict ended. He returned for another, unsuccessful term and throw out again.
GW Bush didn't come to office because he was pounding the table on terrorism. As his critics point out, he seemed largely disinterested in foreign affairs and, as our able Lanny loves to point out, his administration "screwed the pooch" on 9/11 through lack of urgency.
Bush is certainly thumping the table on terrorism now but, unlike Churchill, that's not how he came to power.
Cowperson